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Toshio Matsumoto

Born 1932-03-25 Nagoya, Aichi, Japan 5 films

Toshio Matsumoto (松本俊夫, Matsumoto Toshio; March 25, 1932 – April 12, 2017) was a Japanese film director, a pioneer of avant-garde experimental films, multimedia, and video in his homeland and abroad. Born in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan and a graduate from Tokyo University in 1955, his first short was Ginrin, which he made in 1955, however his most famous work is 1969's wildly experimental Funeral Parade of Roses (also known as Bara no soretsu). A retelling of…

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5 films

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Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto poster

A five-part documentary chronicling Toshio Matsumoto, the legendary filmmaker known as a pioneer of…

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Discovery of Image – The Era of Toshio Matsumoto

★ 0.0 2017

KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts– poster

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots o…

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KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

★ 0.0 2013

Toshio Matsumoto articulates his perspective on the creation of Dogra Magra, presented in the suppl…

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Filming the Unfilmable: An Interview with Toshio Matsumoto

★ 0.0 2003

A documentary on sixties counterculture in Japan featuring Donald Richie, Tadanori Yokoo, Masao Ada…

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Under the Skin

★ 1.0 2002

Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos,…

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Engram

★ 6.2 1987